reddit buttons

reddit have released reddit buttons for webmasters and bloggers to put on their sites to help spread the word about their posts.

They come in three styles. Give them a go and let us know how you find them. Do you actively promote social bookmarking options to your readers? Do you find they work or are readers becoming blind to them?

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I’ve used them for the past week or so and haven’t noticed many clicks from the social bookmarking sites, I’d rather think that people are blind to them than to think what that means for the quality of my posts!
TBH, I’ll click the “post to delicious” link I dragged into my browser toolbar if I find something interesting before I’ll use a site’s link.

i have used them extensively and yes, i get many clicks .REDDIT is the most useful.

But i have been finding their use limited since these sites are used predominantly in USA,Europe,AU/NZ. For some reason or another Indians dont use them so extensively and since my site is India centric, not much of use for me.

I now use Blogstreet’s India centric version, which also lets me pos
t story links, but the readership of this too is limited , i feel, since its newly launched.

I’ve never been a terribly big fan of having those kind of links / buttons on my sites. I’ve had them at times, but always end up taking them off. I like to keep the clutter down personally, but if I had an extremely high-traffic site, then it might be worth it. A small percentage of many thousand visitors is still a pretty solid number.

Is the idea behind this that for each article you write you should submit it to digg or reddit and then just let your visitors vote for them? Or is the idea that you would want one of your visitors to submit it?

I’m using Sociable also and it makes it very easy rather than having to fool around with code. You have a couple dozen buttons you can choose from, but I would only use the five or six most popular with your readers.

I added the reddit code yesterday afternoon and submitted one post. I just checked my visitor stats and have seen a 12% increase! Though my stats are quite low, it’s still nice to see some new traffic.

I use Blogger and it works fine (as I mentioned above – see http://www.crazykinux.com/), you just have to edit the HTML template. Look for the following words “PermFooterPost”, and paste the reddit code after ‘by .‘ Make sure you change ‘[URL]’ to ” in the reddit code.

You should be in business after that. If not, email me: crazykinux [at] gmail.com

Question about Reddit. When I post one of my articles it doesn’t seem to make it into the “new” que any more. (it used to). Any idea why this is happening? Is there a point where Reddit won’t accept more material from a website?